PhD Candidate at Gillan Lab @tcddublin. Interested in repetitive behaviours in psychiatry and meta science.
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined April 2019
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Like the two-step task but wish it was more fun? 🥱Then this preprint is for YOU 🤩
Introducing ☄️ Cannon Blast ☄️ - a smartphone measure of model-based planning
📎 bit.ly/413XlJv
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#Breaking Sarah Healy has won a gold medal in the 3,000 metres at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in the Netherlands
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Friends, this is urgent. Families in Gaza are starving and need our help. I have donated to and been following this soup kitchen since they started. They provide hot meals to thousands & they need funds to keep going. Please consider donating & sharing. gofund.me/aab9459d
One to save 💾 especially with New Years Resolutions around the corner, wanting to either make or break habits with neuroscience-backed tricks! 🧠
Happy to have co-authored this review out now in @TrendsCognSci , with more to come from Team Habit 🫂 @ParnianRafei @eike_kofi
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
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Enjoyed co-authoring this paper on making and breaking habits with our team, @eike_kofi, @DoneganKelly & Claire Gillan, now published in @TrendsCognSci 🧠
"Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits"
cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits cell.com/trends/cognitive-sc…
Null findings are important ‼️ Excited to share my latest work finding model-based planning does NOT improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressant 💊 or iCBT 🧑💻 treatments, 🧵👇
🔗 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hb…
Take-away's: Model-based planning...
🍽️ does not improve following ketamine 💉, antidepressants 💊or iCBT 🧑💻
🍽️ is not necessarily compromised in depression & appears specifically linked to compulsivity
🍽️ may be trait-like rather than state-dependent
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Happy to share that the first first-author paper of my PhD is now published in the journal of Alzheimer's and Dementia! 🧠
A new citizen science study led by researchers in @PsychologyTCD has shed fresh light on dementia risk factors and cognition.
Read more about this #TrinityResearch here: tcd.ie/news_events/articles/…
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Call in and meet our researchers from @TCINeuroscience @MultisensoryC @START_ERN #EuropeanResearchersNight #ReseacherMatters
Thanks @START_ERN for highlighting my research using smartphone-based tasks to understand habits 🔎
Exicted to be presenting these games through our lab’s 📱-app @neurekaApp at today’s #EuropeanResearchersNight #STARTatERN #researchMATTERS
Meet the Researcher! @Donegankelly from @neurekaApp @PsychologyTCD says #researchMATTERS: if we understand how we form habits, it can help us promote healthy habits like eating well & curb our unwanted bad habits. #EuropeanResearchersNight #STARTatERN
🔗start-ern.org
Didn’t think the two-step task could get much better… but it has 👏🏼 Super interesting to see my work replicated & extended! Nice demo of how📱& modelling can help our mechanistic framework of compulsivity 🆒🆒🆒 @toby_wise
📰 New preprint!
We show using computational modelling that transdiagnostic compulsivity is associated with greater uncertainty about learned task structure
This work was led by Siri Sookud, starting during her MSc
Thread below👇
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/zp…
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I was on @drivetimerte on Friday talking about Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours. It's always scary being on national radio, especially about such a sensitive topic, but knowing it might make a difference in even one person's life makes it worth it: rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22…
Very grateful to have worked with Jiayue on her @Futureneuro_ie summer internship 🤳🏽📊 A lovely morning learning (and being humbled by super undergrads!!) about the great projects they completed in just 8-weeks 🤯 #FutureNeuro
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Under the guise of my new alter-ego @TheTrichProf I like invite you all to the first ever Oxford BFRB Conference, co-organised with @BFRB_UK_Ireland psych.ox.ac.uk/BFRBConf. Here's why scientists and researchers should come...
Super-stoked to be talking at the 1st BFRB conference! It’s already looking to be a super event filled with a diverse range of talks on these under represented diagnoses .. Join us online 💻 or in-person, Oxford📍 #OxBFRBConf @BFRB_UK_Ireland
Registration now open for the first ever Oxford BFRB (Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours) conference. Research symposium and community day - led by WIN researcher @TheTrichProf in partnership with @BFRB_UK_Ireland #OxBFRBConf
Info and tickets: psych.ox.ac.uk/BFRBConf
ALT Conference info (black text on white bubble) on a blue-green background with peacock feather image. University of Oxford and BFRB UK & Ireland logos in bottom corners. "Register Now" in top right corner. Text reads Oxford BFRB conference 13-14 September 2024 Oxford UK; Body focused repetitive behaviours include picking, pulling, or biting of hair, skin, or nails. Day 1: research symposium to explore what we know about BFRBs and what we need to do next. Day 2: community Day to bring people together, make connections, and learn from one another.
Reflecting on a good time at #CPC2024 in Minnesota. Grateful to have had the opportunity to present results from my PhD alongside some 🌟 speakers Zegou Qui, @nessambrown & Hilmar Zech where we discussed techniques to improve reliability of our measures 📏
